#eat

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ↗

— Alistair Urquhart

#memoir #military-history #world-war-ii #death

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences. ↗

— Sarah Caldwell

#emotional #emotional experiences #experiences #fact #great

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful. ↗

— Albert Camus

#gustave-flaubert #oran #beauty

Perception is created and twisted so quickly. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#perception #quickly #twisted

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#die #going #great #great things #live

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ↗

— Maria Callas

#best #between #difference #ends #foresee

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult. ↗

— Candace Cameron

#driver #everybody #got #i #license

I have become so accustomed to think “scientifically” that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him. ↗

— P.D. Ouspensky

#death

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. ↗

— David Cameron

#each #edward #excruciating #heath #levels